Poems by Alexander Block
(Alexander Blok poetry)
In English translation
(Russian originals, you’d have to switch to Russian, opens in a new tab)
Alexander Block, poems by Alexandre Block, also rendered as Blok and Alexandr Blok, in English translation. Alexander Block is a leading poet of the Russian symbolism movement, a literary giant of the fin de siècle through the Russian civil war period, though like many poets he, alas, doesn’t translate well.
A few random poems:
- Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan
- let’s love the lawn by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Маяковский – Праздновать способы разные, как мы праздник отпразднуем? (РОСТА № 383)
- Distant Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Two Songs for Hedli Anderson by W. H. Auden
- Choriambics — I by Rupert Brooke
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- Song—Sweet Afton by Robert Burns
- Homecoming of Love on the Sands by Rafael Alberti
- Finisterre by Sylvia Plath
- Notes To A Neophyte by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet CVIII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Набоков – Поэт
- Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
- Armless Enemies by Satish Verma
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works